A blind man failed the U.S. citizenship test after it wasn’t offered in Braille

 

Source: Meagan Flynn - The Washington Post ( Paid Registration )

Lucio Delgado was ready to become a citizen.

Born 100 percent blind, the 23-year-old legal permanent resident had been studying English for the past six years since coming to the United States from Mexico as a teenager, learning by listening in school and on the radio. He practiced all the civics questions that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers would ask him for the citizenship test. He got a vision exam by an optometrist so he could prove he is legally blind, asking in his application that he be given the test in Braille.

But on May 21, Delgado failed the test — because there was one thing the blind man didn’t anticipate.

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